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Vargo posted:No one cares. loving what!? The only times I've eaten Qdoba all I've wished was that I was eating Chipotle. Or, ideally, something else all together. Also: You were not kidding about Portland dating. This is going to be ... interesting. Also, I'm pretty sure I voted 5 while drinking because I wanted to favstar someone's post.
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2 dates in 2 days (technically only 5 1/2 hours apart) and I was feeling on top of the world until I noticed my ex's okcupid account was active and had to view it long enough to hide her so she doesn't come up in searches. Which she would come up in because we're apparently a 96% match. God drat. Gonna go watch Akira with some movie nerds for a meetup later. They call this group Cinema Paradiso, so they can't be all bad right? Hopefully this will give me just the right kind of distraction.
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I had a singing audition for the Portland Area Theatre Alliance last week and now have a callback for the main villain in a production of Parade. Since I thought I lost the tempo and blew the audition, this was really unexpected. I also didn't do a monologue or any of the dancing auditions, so the callback is based entirely on my rendition of "Marry Me a Little" from Company, which I admittedly am a really good match for vocally. I'm not getting my hopes up or anything since I have no idea if they're calling back dozens of people for the role, who else will be there, what exactly they're looking for, etc but it's still pretty drat rad and unexpected. Maybe I'm going to make Portland work for me after all.  Movie chat: I went to a meetup and watched Akira yesterday and two of the people there were so excited that I had more to say than "It was good" during our discussion that they're basically pushing for friendship status like they want to date me or something. Mainly because I didn't use the words pretentious, manipulative, problematic, etc I'm sure.
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Apr 14, 2014 19:04
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Literally The Worst posted:I think that was supposed to be a joke. It absolutely was. I'm not really into dudes. Much less awkward movie nerd dudes. At least not romantically.
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Apr 14, 2014 19:44
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CoolZidane posted:Congrats on the callback! I am so jealous because I absolutely adore Parade. When you say "main villain", are you talking Dorsey or Watson? Because I think they both have a pretty fair claim to the title. Dorsey. I am not familiar with the show at all and just started looking into it this morning. Dorsey sounds like a character I could really nail if given the chance, but I am refusing to get my hopes up. I really did just go to the audition in the hopes of getting into the chorus somewhere and having a chance to start to get into the scene. If I can manage to actually get cast in a real role I might just lose my mind.
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Apr 14, 2014 22:46
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I have had my bad posting pointed out many times and you motherfucdeks barely slowed me down. Come back, SubG,
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Apr 16, 2014 06:21
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I am walking to what used to be my apartment to watch Lord of the Rings movies with my ex and her 12 year old cousin because I like watching those movies THAT MUCH.
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Apr 20, 2014 00:43
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I own the movies and want to watch them with the kid, who is really excited about seeing them for the first time. Bad Taste will be for if I still hang out with her parents when she's 16.
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Apr 20, 2014 01:04
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All of you butts (except BigBudgetSequel) are wrong. She already liked the first one and no amount of snobbery will steal an ounce of the love I have for these movies.
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Apr 20, 2014 01:16
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I will admit that the first Hobbit movie was bloated, but the second was rad as gently caress.
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Apr 20, 2014 01:23
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12 year old liked the movie and I'm probably not going to cry myself to sleep, so I'd call this a win. I was a little surprised it took so long for anyone to get the part of it I intended to be funny.
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Apr 20, 2014 06:56
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I selfishly want you to move to Portland so we can start wooing other goons to come join us. We'll shift the balance from Chicago and Boston to Portland and then we'll ... well, I don't know what exactly. I just completed my callback to play Dorsey in a production of Parade. I have an actual shot at a major role in a paid production in a major US city. Considering my background and how little experience I actually have (and no formalized training whatsoever), I feel pretty loving rad right now. It doesn't matter if I get the part, even. I am a total rube from the sticks and I got a callback wherein I didn't embarrass myself. That's a win.
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Apr 21, 2014 21:49
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I just bought Sex Criminals in the last week and absolutely loved it. This is the first modern, current comic I have read in several years and I don't regret it, which is about as high a praise as I can give things. Now I'll go back to reading random indie stuff I picked up from the library, most of which I also hate.
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Apr 22, 2014 06:35
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So, back on the first I posted my ... I guess teaser image for my autobio webcomic, Life and How to Live It and got some nice feedback. I've been considering doing this in small and large projects (some of the pages were drawn 8 1/2 by 11 inches, some 16 by 20 or larger), but I've also been in love with American Elf and really want to try and do a daily comic. As a compromise, I thought I might add "micro" to the list and continue something I've done on and off this year by journaling and doing a little sketch to go with it. The journal entries are none of your goddamn business, but if I turned the sketches into comics (or illustrations, I suppose) I might be able to do nearly daily updates with the larger projects coming along as they're completed. So, if I were to do a 10 minute comic like this on a nearly daily basis, would you butts read it?  Especially if I interspersed it with things that looked more like this?  The writing will improve, but this is pretty indicative of the level of drawing prowess I intend to show for these little ones. This is less than 3 by 7 1/2 inches, so there's only so much I can convey in something that small. And the whole point is to fly through it so that it's spontaneous and doesn't turn into a burden for me (otherwise I just won't do it). --edit: Also assume I would actually buy a scanner instead of taking pictures with my lovely phone and throwing them online with very minimal manipulation.
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Apr 23, 2014 07:47
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CelticPredator posted:I had it on YouTube a while ago, but George Lucas'ed for a contest. Some shots are actually 2 years apart hah. But yeah here's my High School alien abduction movie. That's right. I'm double-posting to say this was great. Wonderful job of setting the mood. I'll agree that the weakest scene is the dialogue in the car, but I was legit impressed by this. Your logo looks like it's for porn, though.
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Apr 23, 2014 08:01
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I have consistently been having dreams about my ex-girlfriend. It's not helping.
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Apr 24, 2014 06:17
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CPL593H posted:The other day I fell asleep watching a show about ghosts. They of course played a whole bunch of episodes in a row so the dialogue from the show was in my dreams and I dreamed I was in a haunted house. A few of them have ... been along those lines. They also didn't help.
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Apr 24, 2014 06:21
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Online dating has never been the problem for me. Aaaalll of my problems happen above my neck. Showed a girl Phantom of the Paradise today. She loved it. I'm trying not to read too much into the fact that my ex ... didn't. But maybe I should. Making myself do a daily comic is already hard. Especially since most of my day was spent studying front end web development via an online training program I'm trying out for free. I think the most exciting thing I did today was vacuum up ants and think about threatening to move out if they aren't gone soon.
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Apr 24, 2014 07:37
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effectual posted:Jimmy Stewart as 2-face? Or wolfman? Heh. I know the daily thing is probably too much, but I work about 10 hours a week and have been wasting too much of my time lately. I need more to show for all this free time I have. So, online courses, more drawing, and better job hunting. At least I'm finally starting to get some interviews. If I aim for daily and do every three days in the end, that would be rad. And it keeps the skills sharper so that I'm both more prepared and more into doing my "big" pages. I'm just loving done procrastinating. Webcomic launches before the end of May, hell or high water. Mark my words.
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Apr 24, 2014 08:23
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Anonymous Robot posted:I took a nap earlier this evening, and I briefly traveled to a parallel universe where the new hot summer jam was a song by Drake about how he wanted to gently caress celebrity impersonators, and how he actually preferred it to the real thing (?), and it was called "Doppelbanger". Doppelbanger is the post of the year.
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Apr 25, 2014 04:55
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Tender Bender posted:Geekboy, regarding your comic, I think it might work better as a weekly. I enjoy the style of graphic novel writing that was in your sample where you're mulling over the journal, but I like to really get into the mood and immerse myself in it, rather than read it in three panel snippets. It feels like impact is lost when I read a good line and then wait two days to read another. I'd probably end up not reading it regularly and just going through a bunch at a time when I've built up a backlog. Thanks for the feedback! I'm planning my launch and am currently thinking of doing the daily bits and then a monthly "full" comic of anywhere from 2-6 pages (based on what I've got done in the backlog thus far). Lots of little, possibly erratic thoughts and then a nice, carefully thought out bit on a regular basis, too. Maybe I'll do the daily, a weekly page, and a monthly story. What would you think of the daily sketches, a weekly page that covers a single idea or event, then a monthly full-blown story (like the Jon Hamm dream I posted ages ago)? Maybe it would be the Sunday page? Similar to comic strips in newspapers, I could do the Sunday comics version in a larger format, etc. Of course, all of this is an experiment and could drastically change at any time. I've got roughly a month to figure this out based on my self-imposed deadline. Oh, except I don't because then I need to take time to make the website work, too. Oh, and I have a job interview Monday that would pay really well but give me about 3 hours of commuting a day. And I have some people interested in helping me plan a launch party when I get this thing ready, so that will take up even more time. How am I suddenly so drat busy? Also, my avatar is accurate. I'm posting from a tiki-lounge that does karaoke with a Meetup group that goes and does drawings in fun places and drinks together. S'great.
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Apr 27, 2014 07:05
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I Before E posted:Doggie dancing is your life? YES. Also, I'm drinking.
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Apr 27, 2014 07:10
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Tender Bender posted:I think the most important thing is setting a schedule that you can consistently meet. This is my biggest worry, honestly.
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Apr 27, 2014 07:31
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CPL593H posted:I'm warning everyone in advance, if I choose to do this my skin tone is a shade of white you didn't even know existed. You're probably not even in the top ten pale posters in this sub-forum, much less SA in general.
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May 1, 2014 04:33
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I made the crack about us all being pasty white dudes and yet I am kind of tan right now. At least for me. What I mean is that I'm not quite ghostly.
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I have created social media pages (well, twitter and facebook) for my webcomic. This is gonna happen and I'm vaguely terrified.
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May 1, 2014 08:50
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therattle posted:Coffee & TV too. Coffee & TV is one of my all time favorites and I will know that I've found my future ex-wife when I find someone willing to dress as the milk cartons with me for Halloween.
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There's something intimate about the work of the best voice actors that makes this especially sad to me. So, I asked this in the Making Comics thread but I can rarely seem to get any feedback there since my comic isn't fantasy and has no anime girls in it (other than the fantasy world I construct around myself and the inevitable cosplayers I have seen in this city that may appear in the pages), but with my launch coming up I'm trying to iron out a release schedule. I still like doing daily strips to go alongside a monthly (at least) larger piece, but I'm considering doing 2 updates a week with multiple entries per update. This would give readers more content and spread the work I can't carry in my pocket out a bit. Sitting down and drawing the strip every day has been a pretty easy habit to keep so far. Doing that, then scanning it, then cleaning it up, then posting it every day could become a real hassle that I worry I'd crap out on. Any thoughts? And for the record, I know that the average webcomic lover and the average indie autobio-comic lover don't overlap all that much. There are exceptions, of course. I just know I have an uphill battle here.
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Skwirl posted:As long as you're updating on a regular schedule multiple times a week it should be fine, but if you're doing enough work to post it daily, can't you do all the scanning and cleaning in batches, then upload daily. Hell, I know in tumblr you can schedule updates so they'll automatically appear at a set time in the future (and I'm assuming most other web publishing platforms havve a similar function) so you can do a weeks worth of updates at the same time and not worry about it becoming a daily slog. And daily updates are a lot better for maintaining an audience. That's a great idea, thanks!
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May 3, 2014 22:06
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I forgot it was Free Comic Book Day. Oh, well. I guess I'll just go buy them instead.
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May 4, 2014 03:15
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You guys, if this was 2 years ago I would be posting so loving hard about my day. Slice of Life: I am not as pathetic as I used to be. But I am drunk. So that hasn't changed at least.
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May 5, 2014 08:35
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Noxville posted:Instead you're going to go write a comic about it Yes and no. I did write a comic about it, but I still didn't write a comic about the specifics. It's still progress. And besides, art made talking about poo poo is much better than internet posts made talking about poo poo.
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Vargo posted:I really can't tell if posting about how you're not posting is any better or worse. That's very true. But how will people know I'm better if I don't tell them? (that's a rhetorical question)
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May 5, 2014 18:11
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Vargo posted:Geekboy is a Gators fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I0K-ymOTS4 I deserve this post. Today I was offered a job that will more than double my pay, give me an office to report to so I have an adult schedule again, has a great (FREE) benefits package, and it's a company I feel good about working for. Today is a good day. After a visit to Ohio this week to see my family I think I'm going to binge on everything Portland has to offer while I wait for this job to start and then get back to movie watching. I haven't watched a movie in forever. (That includes never getting a chance to see The Lego Movie, as you all suggested. I really did intend to. I swear.)
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DNS posted:I would definitely see that. And I would definitely buy your new avatar for a dollar. Seriously, that's amazing.
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May 7, 2014 08:43
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SALT CURES HAM posted:On one hand, he was a terrible poster, but on the other hand I kinda miss him because now that he's gone I'm the resident terrible poster. C'mon, now. I know I've been busy lately but don't discount me completely.
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I am also happy with the new license I received this week, but that probably has more to do with losing 80 pounds or so since I got my last one. Slice of life: New job starts Monday, pays twice what my current one does (though it's full time instead of working part time from home), I have auditions this week, and a scanner should arrive tomorrow for me to get my webcomic officially launched. Do you think any of those are what I'm thinking about? Of course not! To quote one of my favorite little odd indie films, Lo "Shut up, my brain!" Oh, and I really liked Teeth when I saw it, but I was just starting to embrace feminism at the time and that probably colors my view of it. I wonder what I'd think now.
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May 17, 2014 03:06
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If you're not following all of us on twitter, you're missing out. That's all I'm going to say whilst proving my custom title text true.
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May 17, 2014 06:07
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Hey, goons. I finally officially launched my webcomic, Life and How to Live It. If you've been reading them on twitter you'll have a few days before the content there is new since I'm posting them on a 5 day delay so I don't have to be at my scanner every single day (even if I will be doodling in my notebook every day). Please check out the site, follow the official twitter, the Facebook, and what-not if you are so inclined. I was really emotional earlier today remembering all the times I started projects like this and never followed through on them. I have a notebook with a fully storyboarded and dialogued graphic novel from 2002 and 3 ring binder with a copy of the terrible novel I wrote sitting about 2 feet from me right now. Countless other ideas were half-formed or died because of depression and the lovely life I used to lead. I am not the least bit afraid to admit that once I finished uploading everything and did my first posts to social media to "announce it," I sat in my room and cried for a few minutes. I actually loving did it. And I resisted the urge to say "boo" to my ex about it, even though I really, really wanted to share this moment with her. But she Facebook creeps me, so I know she'll figure it out soon enough. Oh, and I start a new job tomorrow. First time reporting for 40 hours per week in an office work since October. I've actually missed it. Geekboy fucked around with this message at 06:13 on May 19, 2014 |
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Vermain posted:I've never sent someone a followup message if they don't respond on OKCupid. I've also admittedly never had a date from it, but I'd rather come across as boring and bad at conversations than desperate. v Yeah, me neither. I can't imagine what else I could possibly say. The closest I get is getting back to someone if the conversation dies. Usually it's because I'm the one who stopped responding, but I still couch such messages in extremely non-committal terms. There's no way I want to come across even 1/10th as desperate as I actually am. quote:Big congratulations! Thanks!
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